GLENDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017
WINNERS OF GIFF 2017
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Levon Sharafyan
BEST IN FESTIVAL
Tangent Room
Feature Film - any genre 1 hour or more
BEST FEATURE FILM - The Bride from Vegas
BEST DIRECTOR - Artur Levonovich Babayan
BEST ACTOR - Mikael Sharafyan
BEST ACTRESS - Charlene Rose
BEST MUSIC - The Fall of the House of Usher, Jay Woelfel
International Feature Film -
any genre 1 hour or more
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM - Million Loves in Me
BEST DIRECTOR - Björn Engström Tangent Room
BEST ACTOR - John Yiu Million Loves in Me
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS - Koon Lan Law Million Loves in Me
BEST ACTRESS - Vee Vimolmal Tangent Room
BEST MUSIC - Earthquake
Short Film - any genre under 25 minutes
BEST SHORT FILM - Sea Monsters
BEST DIRECTOR - Courtney Miller - Repairations
BEST ACTOR - John Schuck - Tale of the Kite
BEST ACTRESS - April Eckfeld - I’m a Cat
BEST MUSIC- Michael Giacchino, Tale of the Kite
International short Film -
any genre under 25 minutes
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM- Strange Paradise
BEST DIRECTOR - Anselmo Vasconcellos Strange Paradise
BEST ACTOR - Anthony Nikolchev Dead Flowers
BEST ACTRESS- Ana Cláudia Soares
Student Film - any genre any length
BEST STUDENT FILM - Waltz of the Monsters
BEST DIRECTOR- Andy Koeger Rosie, Oh!
BEST ACTOR - Scott Nelson Spaceman
BEST ACTRESS- Zoe Lillian Have a Little Faith
WEB SERIES
BEST WEB SERIES - Lucky Jay 2
BEST DIRECTOR - Harper Philbin Lucky Jay 2
BEST ACTOR - Morlan Higgins Lucky Jay 2
BEST ACTRESS - Andrea Kelley Diary of a Teenage Nobody
BEST SHORT SHORT (under 10 minutes)
I’m a Cat
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY - Crows of the Desert
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY - Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY - We Are Egyptian Armenians
BEST ANIMATION FEATURE - Barkley
BEST ANIMATION SHORT - A Dream of Dolls Dancing
BEST MUSIC VIDEO - Ophelia
BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO - God Came ‘Round
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM - Underwater Deep Dive
BEST TRAILER - Autumn Ghost
BEST SCI-FI FANTASY - Tangent Room
BEST HORROR/THRILLER - Occupants
BEST FEMALE FILM MAKER - Carrie Prince, Kinesthesia
BEST FEMALE SCREENWRITER - Julia Camara, Occupants
BEST EDITING - FEATURE FILM - Mojo
BEST EDITING - SHORT FILM - Antecedent
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS FEATURE FILM- Earthquake
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS SHORT FILM - Nano
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - FEATURE FILM - Million Loves In Me
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - SHORT FILM - Headwind
BEST MAKE UP - FEATURE FILM - Million Loves in Me
BEST MAKE UP - SHORT FILM - Kinesthesia
SPECIAL AWARDS -
OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF GLENDALE, CA ONLY
BEST FILM MAKER IN GLENDALE, CA - Gary Karpetyan, Czech Mate on Ice
BEST STUDENT FILM MAKER IN GLENDALE, CA Ashton Avila, Have a Little Faith
SPECIAL AWARDS -
OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF BURBANK, CA ONLY
BEST FILM MAKER IN BURBANK, CA - Antonio Trejo Chavez Mira Protocol
BEST STUDENT FILM MAKER IN BURBANK, CA -
Konstantin Starodetskii Lotone, Two Worlds
SPECIAL AWARDS -
OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF PASADENA, CA ONLY
BEST FILM MAKER IN PASADENA, CA - Michael Fallavollita, tale of the kite
BEST STUDENT FILM MAKER IN PASADENA, CA - Madeline Rozwat, Letters from Alcatraz
Screenplays
FEATURE SCREENPLAY
1st Place Can you Smell the Flowers Malcolm Holt
2nd Place Democracy's Prisoner Gary Wells
3rd Place Hold Me Keith Mallory
4th Place Dragonsong Robert Cox
5th Place Mona Lisa Caper Gina Cress
1st Honorable Mention The Space in Between Lidia Skendieri
2nd Honorable Mention Universal Monster Constantine Nasr
3rd Honorable Mention Beast Dean Whitney
4th Honorable Mention The Door Robert Cox
CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of
the Short Screenplay Contest:
SHORT SCREENPLAY
1 st Place The Uber Ride By Diana Woody
2nd Place Lapse By Louis Tovar
3rd Place A Second Husband By Thomas Britt
1st HONORABLE MENTION Major Renovation By Kathy Fleig
2nd HONORABLE MENTION Code 10-66 By Mikayla Myers
3rd HONORABLE MENTION Michelangelo By Robert Lemos
4th HONORABLE MENTION Spiced Apple By Rebecca Lunn
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Directed by Sampson Yuen, Written By John Yiu
Inspired by a true story and a headline case in Hong Kong, MILLION LOVES IN ME follows the story of a wealthy mother and daughter who suffer from the psychological issues of obsessive- compulsive disorders, and their controversial private lives are exposed to the public through a charge of their animal hoarding behavior by the police. The topic of animal hoarding, to our knowledge, has not been shot into a movie in cinematic history.
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